Identities

From race and gender to nationality and religion, the concept of "identity" is at the heart of humanity's past and future. This content stream spotlights recent research from UC Berkeley social-scientists related to the themes of identity and affiliation.

On January 31, 2018, Craig Calhoun, President of the Berggruen Institute and Centennial Professor at the London School of Economics, presented the UC Berkeley Social Science Matrix Distinguished Lecture, "Cosmopolitanism and Belonging."

Professor Juana María Rodríguez, from UC Berkeley's Department of Gender and Women’s Studies, suggests that scholars in the field of Queer Studies would benefit from a turn to statistics as a lens into bisexuality and other identities.